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5 comments on “Add Background Image To UIView”

• 

  Agha

  July 15th, 2009 at 02:08

  Thanks for tip.
  The able code will fail.
  Here is the correct code.
  UIView *contentView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame: [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]];
  //contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
  //contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor viewFlipsideBackgroundColor];
  //contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor groupTableViewBackgroundColor];
  //contentView.backgroundColor = [[UIColor alloc] initWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"someimage.png"]];
  self.view = contentView;

  [contentView release];

  Tnanks

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    Abhijeet

    August 7th, 2009 at 14:12

    Both the code are same. In first one you are allocating color to background and and assigning it an image.

    In second one again the same thing is happening. The only difference is some extra code. This will increase the allocations of objects when viewed in instruments.
    there is no need to to first have a UIview as a separate object then assign it to the main view.

    Simply extra piece of code.

    Thanks.

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• 

  memory leak

  January 22nd, 2010 at 19:38

  You have a memory leak there. The correct code is:

  UIColor *bkgColor = [[UIColor alloc] initWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"MyBackground.png"]];
  self.view.backgroundColor = bkgColor;
  [bkgColor release];

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  Me

  April 11th, 2010 at 12:51

  How about:

  self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"background.png"]];

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  John James

  May 1st, 2011 at 19:30

  Actually none of these work for more than the first view when trying to make a background for image selected from a table list.

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